Jonathan Thomas

The train whistle you could hear walking up Prospect Street in Hartford Saturday was the hint that something special was going on at The Hartford Club.

And Hartford's iconic author, the late Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, would surely have loved it.

The author of famed classics including "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" was well-known for being a world traveler so it made sense that the Mark Twain House & Museum's annual gala would reflect such globe-trotting.

Titled "a Cheerful, Careless Voyage" the party was about the places Twain had traveled including...

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